Rainforest flora, Northern Chilean Patagonia.

 Tineo: Weinmannia trichosperma,


Tineo: Weinmannia trichosperma, known as Tineo, Tenío and Palo Santo, has beautiful pinnate imparipinnate leaves with a part of the leaf with a rhomboidal shape between each pair of opposite and serrated folioles.

Its white flowers appear, in December and when they become red capsules (fruit) in summer, they give the whole tree a reddish color. It is one the broad-leaved tree which reaches a bigger size (40 to 50 m height and 2 m diameter).

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